There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. “Adam,” I said.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

Oh - a diamond ring - and Rhett, do buy a great big one!

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

In these days there is no time to pray; but without time, and a lot of it, we shall never learn to pray.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.